Daily Archives: September 13, 2015
The Privileged Poor
Posted on September 13, 2015 69 Comments
A (to me) fascinating article in the New York Times today, talking about “the privileged poor,” which in this case means poor students who were fortunate enough to attend elite high schools, and the advantages they have over other poor students when both groups went on to college. The article was fascinating to me because […]
My Almost Certainly Ill-Advised Proposed Award Voting Process
Posted on September 13, 2015 57 Comments
In light of recent events and posts, I’ve been asked, if it fell to me to create a literary award, how I might work the voting process. My response is, first, I think I would rather pull out my own teeth with pliers than to take on the work and aggravation of helming an award, […]
17 Years
Posted on September 13, 2015 30 Comments
On this day seventeen years ago I sat down and wrote the first-ever blog post on Whatever (or “the Whatever”; the disposition about the indefinite article was not resolved for a number of years). I’m still doing it, on a more or less daily basis. It’s the longest amount of time that I’ve ever kept […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying